Diliara Valeeva
KU Leuven
SASE-2022, Amsterdam
* Decline of corporate interlocks
* Decreased elite cohesion
* Fragmented, less united elites
Integration through other types of organizations *
Multisectorality of the power elite *
New forms of cohesion and coordination *
* Financial institutions and banks are central in national interlock networks
* But: decline of national interlocks
* What about their transnational ties?
* And what about their ties to non-corporate actors?
How are the global financial firms connected nationally and globally?
* and across sectors
* Orbis Bureau van Dijk, 2018
* 112 largest global financial firms
* Board interlocks with 2,300 organizations
* Corporate and non-corporate organizations
* Non-corporate: think tanks, policy planning groups, art and culture, associations, etc
* National and transnational interlocks: interlocks within or across national borders
112 financial firms *
Corp and non-corp interlocks *
Core: North American, British, Swiss, Dutch firms
47 network communities
Top-10 firms with the highest number of transnational interlocks
Top-10 firms with the highest number of
non-corporate interlocks
* Intersection between transnationality and non-corporate ties
* Classical debates: decline and multisectoratliy
* Elite identity and coordination
By Diliara Valeeva
SASE-2022 Amsterdam presentation